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Kerry Feldman
Department of Anthropology
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK 99505
907-786-6849; [email protected]
DEGREES: ANTHROPOLOGY
Ph.D.
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 1973
M.A.
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 1970
DEGREES: OTHER
St. Thomas College, Kenmore, Washington B.A. Philosophy
Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. S.T.L. Theology
CURRENT POSITION: Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage
POSITIONS: ADMINISTRATION
2004-‘05
Interim Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage
1998 -2004
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage
1994-‘98
Chair, Department of Anthropology, University
‘82-’84 &
of Alaska Anchorage
‘76-‘81
1978-80
Coordinator, Research Unit of College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage
1974-76
Head, Division of Behavioral Science, Senior College,
University of Alaska, Anchorage
POSITIONS: TEACHING & RESEARCH
1983-Current Professor, Department of Anthropology,
University of Alaska Anchorage
1981-82
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology,
University of California, Berkeley (sabbatical leave, sponsored by Laura Nader, UC,
Berkeley)
1980-81
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Anchorage
1975-80
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Alaska, Alaska (tenured 1978)
1973-75
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Senior College, University of Alaska, Anchorage
1972-73
Instructor, Department of Anthropology
University of Colorado, Boulder (doctoral candidate)
GRANTS & CONTRACTS
2006-07
“Anchorage as Place, Portal and Process: Growing the Diverse Voices of Anchorage”.
Project proposal funded by UAA Chancellor’s Strategic Opportunity Fund (UAA as a Public
Square). Co-proposers include P. Fast, C. Hild, J. Mapaye, S. Aufrecht, R. Crosman.
Funding 12 UAA students to study or develop a creative project (dramatic, poetry, music,
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2006-09
1998-00
1997-98
1997-98
1995-96
1991-93
1991-93
1990
1981-82
video documentary etc.) regarding one of the 90+ language groups/ethnic communities now
residing in Anchorage. $10k
Consultant, “Investigating How Culture Bolsters Resilience and Protects against Suicide”. L.
Wexler, PI. Inupiat youth research project to identify possible cultural barriers to suicide.
Ethnohistorical Research, King Salmon Traditional Native Council & Bristol Bay Native
Corporation. Conduct research and write report documenting the application for tribal status
to the US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Tribal status received
December 29, 2000. $7,600
Ethnographer. Needle exchange clinical trial project, Dennis Fisher, Principal Investigator,
University of Alaska Anchorage, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. $2.4m project
funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. $11,500 subcontract
Multicultural Studies Minor Project, UAA Title III Diversity Fund. $2,500
Evaluation Team, Ethnographic Component, through UAA School of Education in
cooperation with the Anchorage School District. Ethnography of a successful Head Start
experimental program. Four year demonstration project funded by U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services.
Evaluation Team, Ethnographic Component, through UAA School of Education. National
Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Project. Administration for Children,
Youth and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Subcontract:
$20,000 1991-92, $16,000 1992-93, $16,000 1993-94. Direct student research assistants and
conduct educational ethnographic research, write final reports for the qualitative data
component of the Anchorage School District's transition project from grades K-3,
implementing the Head Start program into public schools.
Alaska Native Rehabilitation Project, Providence Hospital, Anchorage. Assist the
Rehabilitation Center of Providence Hospital in providing culturally appropriate care for
Alaska Natives. One result was the revision of the Boston Naming Test for assessing speech
loss. Two anthropology students and one nursing student were involved in the project (two of
these students were Alaska Natives). UA President's Special Projects Fund. $3,500
Symposium on Glasnost and Alaska: Travel funds to bring first US ethnographer in the Soviet
Far East to the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, York, England,
March 1990. President's Special Projects Fund, University of Alaska. $3,000
Subsistence Beluga Whale Hunting in Alaska. Project funded by the Alaska State Legislature
to the Arctic Environmental Information and Data Center, University of Alaska. Assess
importance of subsistence beluga whale hunting for Alaska Native communities in light of
decision by the International Whaling Commission to limit or ban subsistence beluga whale
hunting in parts of Canada, considering it for
Alaska but without studying the possible impact on Alaska Native communities.
$120,000 total grant to AEIDC (subcontract).
1980
1978
1976
Alaska Native Youth Away From Home: A Comparative Study of Displaced Youth. Faculty
advisor and project initiator, with advanced students. Student Originated Studies Program of
the National Science Foundation. $18,266
Elderly Alaskan Natives in Anchorage: A Needs-Assessment for Social Service Program
Planning. Initiator and faculty advisor to undergraduate and graduate students. Train students
in grant writing, research planning and procedures, supervise data collection, supervise data
analysis and assist in completing final report. National Science Foundation, Student
Originated Studies Program. Project $16,650
Behavioral Sciences in the North Conference (third annual conference). Provide a forum for
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1975
1971-72
public dialogue between Alaskan (state, local, public, private) officials, university faculty and
the general public concerning Alaskan social issues. Alaska Humanities Forum, National
Endowment for the Humanities. $5,000
Co-Author, University Year for ACTION Program, US Department of Health, Education and
Welfare. Fund service learning innovations in university courses. $100,000+
National Science Foundation dissertation award. Investigated the socioeconomic conditions
and migratory paths of residents of squatter colonies in Davao City, Philippines. $6,000
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Alaska Anthropological Association
Society for Applied Anthropology
ILLUSTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2005-06
Organized University of Alaska inter-campus research team to propose Research Focus Areas
for the University of Alaska EPSCoR III submission to the National Science Foundation; goal
was to integrate social sciences research with natural and physical science research in Alaska
to address and understand the effects of global and local climate/environmental changes.
Main project foci are being incorporated into the final UA proposal. P. Schweitzer of UAF is
Director of the UA EPSCoR III program of UA.
2004-present Member, Del Jones Student Travel Award Committee, Society for Applied Anthropology.
2005-06
Member, Planning Committee, Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied
Anthropology (SfAA), Vancouver, B.C., March 28 – April 2, 2006. Organized 33 papers
from Alaskan social scientists for presentations in several sessions organized for this
conference.
2002 - present Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs (COPAA), Executive
Committee and Secretary.
2002-2003
Member, Southcentral Native Educators’ Association.
1998-Current Reviewer for articles submitted to Human Organization and Journal Comparative Family
Studies (Canada)
1990-94
Associate Editor, Human Organization, journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
1990-91
Chair, Organizing Committee, annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropology Association,
Anchorage.
1989-90
National and Alaskan Coordinator, Program Committee for the Society of Applied
Anthropology, Annual Meetings, Santa Fe, 1989, and York, England, 1990.
1982
Guest Editor (with Steve Langdon) for Special Section of Practicing Anthropology on
"Anthropology
and
Public
Policy
in
Alaska.”
1974-76, 78
Member, Board of Directors, Alaska Anthropology Association.
1974
Co-originator: Alaska Anthropology Conference (ongoing annually to present).
PUBLICATIONS:
In Review
“The Indigenization of an Alaskan University.” Paper requested by editors of a book
contracted for with Duke University Press to be titled, The Alaska Reader. P. Fast and M.
Williams, eds. 27 pages
2005
“Northern Engagement: Alaskan Society and Applied Anthropology, 1973-2003,”
Co-authors: Steve J. Langdon and David C. Natcher. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 3
(1): 121-155. (Paper requested by organizing committee of the annual meeting of the
Alaska Anthropological Association (aaa), Fairbanks; brief draft presented at Plenary
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1994
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1991
1986a.
1986b.
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1981a
1981b
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1972a
Session of aaa, March, 2003).
“Ethnohistory and the IRA Tribal Status Application of King Salmon Natives, Alaska. Alaska
Journal of Anthropology 1 (1): 100-117.
“Niqsaq and napaaqtuq: issues in Iñupiaq Eskimo life-form classification and ethnoscience”.
Inuit Studies 19 (2):77-100.
“Socioeconomic Structures and Mate Selection Among Urban Populations in Developing
Regions”. Journal of Comparative Family Studies xxv(3):329-343.
“Alaska Natives With Disabilities and A Rehabilition Center: Holistic Applied
Anthropology”. Issue of Applied Plains Anthropologist in honor of R. A. Hackenberg,
14(2):45-60.
Review of “Science in Northwest Alaska: Research Needs and Opportunities on Federally
Protected Lands,” by D.M. Hopkins, W. H. Arundale, and C.W. Slaughter. Alaska Quaternary
Center, University of Alaska Museum, Occasional Paper #3. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Review published in Arctic.
“Subsistence Beluga Whale Hunting in Alaska: A View from Eschscholtz Bay”. In,
Contemporary Alaskan Native Economies, ed. by Steve J. Langdon. New York: University
Press of America, pp. 153-171.
“Beluga Hunting”. Alaska Native Journal, 4 (5):6-10..
“Up (and Down) the Anthropologist: Dissecting the Alaskan Public Policy Maze Related to
Youth”. Practicing Anthropology 5 (1): 14,16.
“Anthropology and Public Policy in Alaska: Recent Policy Related to Legal Systems, Native
Subsistence and Commercial Fisheries”. Policy Studies Review 1 (1): 87-110. Center for
Public Affairs, University of Kansas.
“Anthropology Under Contract: Two Examples From Alaska”. In, Anthropologists At Home
In North America, ed. by Donald A. Messerchmidt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pp. 223-237.
“Ethnohistory and the anthropologist as expert witness in legal disputes: A Southwestern
Alaska Case”. Journal of Anthropological Research 36 (2): 245-257.
“Socio-historical factors and the growth of squatter settlements: Mindanao, Philippines 195072”. Urban Anthropology. 8 (1): 49-72.
“Demographic indices of the squatter problem in Davao City, Philippines”. Urban
Anthropology. 4 (4): 365-386.
“Squatter migration dynamics in Davao City, Philippines. Urban Anthropology”. 4 (2): 123144.
Squatter migration dynamics in Davao City, Philippines: The dynamics of an adaptive
institution in the urbanization process of a developing country. Unpublished Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
“Deviation, demography, and development: Differences between Papago Indian
communities”. Human Organization. 31: 137-147.
29 PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS.
13 RESEARCH REPORTS PREPARED FOR LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES
ILLUSTRATIVE PUBLIC SERVICE: ALASKA
2006
Lecture on "Culture, Spirituality and Wellness in Medicine” for Alaska Family Medicine
Residency Program, Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage.
2004-05
Organized student research projects and presentations for the Anchorage Neighborhood
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1975
Health Center (ANHC) regarding health, illness and curing beliefs among groups now
residing in Anchorage from Laos (Lao, Mien, Hmong) and Samoa. Requested by the ANHC.
Cross-cultural communication and Alaskan Native patients. Providence Hospital
Rehabilitation Center, Anchorage.
Invited Symposium speaker, Cross-cultural dimensions of Aging. Alaska Conference on
Aging, Older Alaskans Commission, Anchorage.
Cultural Awareness Training for staff of the Jesse Lee Home, Anchorage.
Member, Advisory Board, Cultural Awareness Project. Alaska Children Services, Anchorage.
Reviewer: Energy Conservation Grant Applications, Alaska Commission on Science and
Technology.
Expert witness: Paug-vik Village Native Corporation vs. State of Alaska and Ward's Cove
Cannery. Superior Court of Alaska.
Consultant: RuralCAP Head Start Teacher Training Program.
Panel Moderator: Battered Wives Conference, Anchorage.
Cultural Differences Workshop, State Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.
Consultant: Fairbanks Human Rights Commission, Fairbanks Lecturer and Group Discussion
Member: Alaska Federation of Natives Bush Justice Conference, Kenai.
Participant: State-Federal Land Use Planning Commission Workshop, Anchorage.
Commencement Speaker: Stellar High School, Anchorage.
Guest Speaker and Discussion Group Facilitator: Alaska Humanities Forum Symposium on
identifying and preserving Native culture lifestyles in Yakutat. Anchorage vis-à-vis oil
exploration.
Chairperson: Behavioral Science in the North Conference (1974-76), Anchorage. A
Statewide Community participation conference with academicians, politicians and
community leaders.
Guest Lecturer: Alaska Native Medical Center, and Aleut League Alcohol Rehabilitation
Project, Anchorage.